When one has love for God one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife children relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy too.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

When children are very young you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that not gloss over them.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work instead of retirement then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly the disabled then again that's very positive.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent thoughtful schoolchildren.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children things that touch your soul.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme rhythm and the words themselves.

Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

I want to write a book of poetry as well as children's stories.

Children can write poetry and then unless they're poets they stop when reach puberty.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.